Today’s Headlines

• ATX Detour Day: Alternative Transportation Encouraged As South By Southwest Kicks Off (KVUE)
• …But Maybe Don’t Bank On Using The Red Line, While It Is Getting Upgraded (CapMetro)
• Austin Junell, 20, Charged in Death of Two Teenage Women Riding in Car He Drove Drunk (KLTV)
• Austin’s Capital Metro’s New CEO Plans to Ride the Bus Every Day (KXAN)
• Houston Metro Signs Agreement to Run Uptown BRT, Will Buy Its First BRT Vehicles (HPM)
• Austin Pilots Electric Pedicabs, Potential Precursor to Electric Bicycle Policy (Statesman)
• Cannady: High-Speed Rail Station Belongs in Downtown Houston (Houston Chron)
• Combined Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Councils Call for Dedicated Transit ROW on Austin Corridors
• Urban Transportation Commission Calls for Only Funding Corridors with Dedicated Transit ROW
• Video: AURA (and Others) Calls For Dedicated Transit ROW on The Drag

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